Quotes About Sacrifice

Many people assume that being a Christian means you follow all the rules and have your life together. They assume that "Christian" equals "good person"—when the opposite is true. The gospel is not about what we can do for God (good advice), but what God has done for us (good news). Jesus lived a perfect life precisely because we can't.

Morir a uno mismo significa considerar que es mejor morir que tener lujuria; considerar que es mejor morir que decir esta falsedad; considerar que es mejor morir que… [nombra tú el pecado]».

When the Bible speaks of love, it measures it primarily not by how much you want to receive but by how much you are willing to give of yourself to someone. How much are you willing to lose for the sake of this person? How much of your freedom are you willing to forsake? How much of your precious time, emotion, and resources are you willing to invest for this person?

The fundamental response to God's radical love for us is for us to radically love him.

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.

But none of us are called to sacrifice others to safeguard ourselves, no matter how important we may seem. The proper position of leadership is in front, partaking in the dangers of the lowliest of soldiers. This is what Jesus did, and it is the height of foolishness. May we, in our weakness, be granted to access such heights.

Atonement does not always directly help the one we have sinned against. It does not always help anyone at all. Had Boromir run of with Aragorn, he could have been of greater help in tracking the orcs after Merry and Pippin were captured than he was in giving his life to defend them.

There's no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

her pain, Beck. She loved you enough for both her children.

Compromise is the assassin of fellowship with God.

Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God

You will never be passionate about something in which you don't fully believe. You may be able to fake your passion for Christ for a season, but it will be sure to wither when the heat of affliction comes. How far you are willing to go and how much discomfort you are willing to experience for the sake of the gospel will say much about what you truly believe.

Timothy Keller makes the point well: Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom. (Keller, Walking with God, 47)

In short, for supplying and controlling both natural resources (oil) essential for U.S. economic life, and also for nurturing U.S. group identity, the deaths of the poor are necessary. They are sacrifices that power the U.S.-led imperium.

The phrase "executed God" does important conceptual work symbolically, and with practical effects for communities that center themselves around such a notion. The

Daily living is replete with ideologies rationalizing the sacrifice of racially stigmatized, surplus populations.

I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.

Given the world, given the situation, the question that remains is whether having children is a statement of hope, an insistence on the beauty and meaningfulness and basic worth of being here, or an act of human sacrifice.

The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.

If the choice on offer is between pasta primavera mix with freeze-dried chicken chunks and being among the first wave of deaths in the apocalypse, I hereby enthusiastically place my order for oblivion.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

As President Reagan famously declared, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."1

Of course, noncooperation and civil disobedience overlapped. Noncooperation too was to be carried out in a "civil" manner. Here too, Gandhi's followers had to cheerfully face beating, imprisonment, confiscation of their property—and it was hoped that this willing suffering would cause a "change of heart.

Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms." Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol